For rock legends Fleetwood Mac, it's 'til death do us part

Do not call it a comeback and don't even think of it as a
farewell tour.

After more than four decades making music and a 2010 tour,
Fleetwood Mac will hit the road again next year. But it won't
be its last tour, singer Stevie Nicks vowed, dismissing any
notion that the band could be packing away their instruments
in the near future.

"It's never going to be a final tour until we drop dead,"
Nicks told Reuters. "There's no reason for this to end as
long as everyone is in good shape and takes care of
themselves."

The 34-city tour with dates in the United States and Canada
will begin on April 4 in Columbus, Ohio, and finish up on
June 12 in Detroit.

The tour coincides with the 35th anniversary of the
blockbuster 1977 album, "Rumours," which landed the group
four hit singles and sold more than 40 million copies
worldwide. The album will be reissued with unreleased studio
and live recordings, Fleetwood Mac said.

After frequent changes to the lineup since the band formed in
London in 1967, the 2013 tour will feature Nicks, guitarist
Lindsey Buckingham, and founding members Mick Fleetwood on
drums and John McVie on bass.

Touring again is "a big deal," said Nicks, 64, who is known
for her floor-length blonde hair and frilly outfits.

"I don't want a Fleetwood Mac tour every year or year and a
half. That's why people get so excited. ... All of a sudden
the world is on edge and that's what gets you out there."

For Nicks, who recently finished a two-year solo tour
promoting her 2011 album "In Your Dreams," making music and
being on the road is her life.

"If you never stop, you don't lose your energy," the
"Landslide" singer said of keeping pace with a demanding tour
schedule when each band member is into their 60s. "Even when
we stop, everybody is still doing a lot of stuff."

'EVERYBODY IS NERVOUS'

Like Nicks, Buckingham has his own solo career, and Fleetwood
has a restaurant in Hawaii and a U.S. vineyard as well as his
own music gigs.

Fleetwood and McVie are both founding members of the band,
and Buckingham and Nicks joined the group in 1974.

Singer and songwriter Christine McVie, who wrote the big hit
"Don't Stop" that was on "Rumours," joined the band in the
early 1970s after marrying John McVie, but retired from
touring after the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 1998. She still contributes on occasion to
studio efforts.

Although the band will not kick off the tour until April,
Nicks said the anxiety-filled grind begins months before
during rehearsals when band members hammer out which songs to
play.

Of the 22 songs Fleetwood Mac will play during a concert, 11
will be hits, such as "Dreams," "Don't Stop" and "Hold Me,"
Nicks said.

For herself, it is a daily routine of vocal exercises and
primping that can take hours.

"It's overwhelming in a good way, but it's still
overwhelming," Nicks said of the process. "By the third day
(of rehearsals) you start to calm down and get into your
role. At first, everybody is nervous and not knowing what
they'll do."

But a decade removed from their last studio album "Say You
Will," Nicks admits it may be time for another Fleetwood Mac
release, adding that she and Buckingham had spent time
writing songs together recently.

"Personally, I think we feel better than before," Nicks said.
"We're not doing drugs and stuff like that ... You don't know
what you'll do when you're not doing this."